Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro – CV

Kurosch Thuro studied Geology with focus on Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology at the Technische Universität München in the years 1983 to 1989. He made his PhD at the Technische Universität München in 1995 and received the Leopold Müller Award from the Austrian Geotechnical Society for his thesis on the drillability in conventional tunnelling. He worked at TUM between 1990 and 1998 as research assistant and subsequently from 1999 to 2003 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) as senior research and lecture assistant. In 2002 he habilitated both at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Technische Universität München. In 2004 he obtained the Chair for Engineering Geology back at the Technische Universität München.

 

His main research topics are (1) landslides monitoring, analysis and risk management and (2) tool wear due to abrasivity of rock and soil and advance rates in conventional and mechanized tunneling. Currently 15 PhD projects are carried out at his chair, since 2006 16 doctor’s degrees were awarded and he was involved in another 12 PhD research studies as referee.

 

For him, laboratory and fieldwork belong together as closely as research and teaching. He is director of the engineering geology and hydrogeology master program and he is responsible for teaching of engineering geology both on undergraduate and graduate level. Additionally he still has got a teaching assignment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in the engineering geology master program.

 

Since 2009 Kuroch Thuro is member of the Executive Board of the National Group of Engineering Geology section of the IAEG and member of several commissions on rock and soil testing, education in engineering geology and consulting expertise. He is member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals (e.g. Geomechanics & Tunnelling, Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences).

 

Currently he is member of the Academic Senate of TUM and Speaker of the Munich GeoCenter, an association between LMU (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and TUM in the field of geosciences.